Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers which is used to cache the output code of script applications. It is very useful for scripts with large source code and will speed up such an Internet site as much as 3 times. PHP sites are dynamic and any time a visitor opens a page, the script connects to a database to retrieve some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being displayed to the guest. In case the output code doesn't change however, which is the case with Internet sites which display identical content at all times, these actions trigger unneeded reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it whenever visitors browse an Internet site, so the database doesn't have to be accessed and the program code does not have to be parsed and compiled again and again, which consequently lowers the Internet site loading time. The module can be quite effective for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, and so on.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Web Hosting

You can use APC with every single web hosting plan that we provide since it's already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our platform is really flexible, you'll be able to run sites with various system requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For instance, you can allow APC only for a single version of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the versions running on our platform. In addition, you can choose if all Internet sites working with a certain PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled only for selected websites and not for all sites in the web hosting account. The last option is useful if you wish to employ a different web accelerator for several of your Internet sites. These customizations are carried out effortlessly via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.